Carrick Institute Award and Grant Recipients at VU

Carrick Institute Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Ms Penny Bassett

For sustained contribution to creating a supportive, innovative learning environment in management education for students from diverse backgrounds, based on a platform of internationalisation.

Dr Alasdair McAndrew

For sustained contributions to mathematics education through innovative and responsive teaching and learning strategies, in particular the use of mathematical siftware.

Dr Iwona Miliszewska

For 15 years' exemplary contribution to the scholarship and practice of transnational computing education, especially the development of a unique transnational computing project model.

Dr John Martino

For the development of engaging approaches to motivating and stimulating graduate education students through teamwork, social technology and contextualised learning.

Professor Stephen Bigger

For developing and disseminating over a sustained period original and innovative approaches to teaching chemistry to students with diverse backgrounds and interests.

Award Winners 2007

Dr Colin Hocking

For establishing Iramoo Community Centre and Wildlife Park to advance learning and develop understanding and concrete action to conserve threatened species in the Western Melbourne Region.

Mr Alan McWilliams, Ms Fiona Henderson, Ms Greeja DeSilva

Excellence in curriculum redesign to support students diverse learning needs on and offshore, and leadership in the development of a teaching team to achieve this.

Dr Hao Shi, Ms Jane Madden, Ms Joanne Tyler

For novel and effective approaches to life-long student learning and employability through a cross university interdisciplinary collaborative teaching program developed over an extended period.

Award Winners 2006

Dr Dennis Hemphill

For a decade of institutional leadership in curriculum development and educational support for student learning in the Faculty of Human Development.

Associate Professor Steve Selig

For sustained passion, vision, creativity, energy and engagement in the leadership of a postgraduate program that is under a continuous cycle of review and improvement.

Carrick Institute Grant and Funding Scheme Recipients

Discipline Based Initiatives Funding Scheme

2007

Professor Steve Selig, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University
Leading Investigator

Meeting the challenges of clinical exercise science and practice: A collaborative university-industry approach to align the education of the AAESS-accredited exercise physiologist with the challenges of its recent admittance into allied health. (pdf download)

Competitive Grants Program

2007

Charles Sturt University (in partnership with Victoria University and others)

On-line student supervision training – accessible and cooperative learning in social work.

2006

University of South Australia (in partnership with Victoria University)

Disseminating Strategies for Incorporating Australian Indigenous Content into Psychology Undergraduate Programs throughout Australia.